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Movie critics like to cuddle too; they want their favorite filmmakers to keep making favored films. And Allen has had skeins of terrific movies: Zelig, Broadway Danny Rose, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Hannah and Her Sisters and Radio Days in the mid-'80s and the lesser, still pleasing run of Husbands and Wives, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Bullets over Broadway and Mighty Aphrodite in the mid-'90s. So, as we near the mid-'00s, can we hope for another blossoming? It would be nice if the Woodman had one more return to top form--an invigorating dose of comic Viagra...
Combating this slow extinction of independent bookstores at the hands of chain stores and online book retailers is a serious concern. Chain stores like Barnes & Noble, which runs the Harvard Coop, provide a wide selection of popular titles. However, they rarely offer shelf space for academic titles, lesser known books from smaller publishers or works by unknown authors. Independent bookstores fill this gap and provide a range of titles outside the popular and publicized sphere of the chain store...
...public education. The plan, approved last week by a bitterly divided Pennsylvania School Reform Commission, places 20 formerly-public schools under the power of the for-profit corporation Edison Schools Inc., five under the control of Temple University, three under the University of Pennsylvania and the remainder under four lesser-known organizations. These firms will exercise full control of school budgets and will likely have unchecked power in hiring and firing decisions...
Michael Clarke Duncan, from The Green Mile, plays a counterpart to The Rock that comes close to matching the strength and intensity of the People’s Champion. This duo provides great entertainment as they clean up hordes of lesser bad guys...
...albeit flawed) in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, promoting “universal rights” and helping “liberate” countries from Japanese imperialism and communism. This is, of course, if you overlook Vietnam, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, suppression of the Filipino independence movement and other lesser “transgressions...